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This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source: in particular those languages in which every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. Examples are drawn from over 500 languages from all over the world. Thisimportant book on an intriguing subject will interest anthropologists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her books, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices (2000, paperback reissue 2003), and Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) were published by Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Manambu, from the Sepik area of New Guinea.
